creativity

How To Be More Creative Part 3: Questions of Consistency

This is part 3 in a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. You can’t do very much reading about creativity without bumping into Leonardo Da Vinci. In the last month I’ve read a couple of books about him, and what I didn’t know was unsurprisingly profound, although I had thought I knew the broad [...]

July 27, 2010 READ MORE →

Have You Ever Wanted To Write A Book?

You have probably known someone who has said “I want to write a book.” Or “I should write a book.” Or “I could have written that!” Perhaps you’ve ever said these things yourself. I have. The difference between me and a lot of people is that, for better or worse, I have written a book. [...]

July 22, 2010 READ MORE →

How To Be More Creative Part 2 – Good Confusion

In part 1 of How To Be More Creative, we discussed problems with sameness, distractions, and the creative perils of being a passive spectator too often. Today I want to talk briefly about the best friend my own creativity has ever had: confusion. But first: The negative meaning(s) of confusion Confusion is rarely a pleasant [...]

July 9, 2010 READ MORE →

Why Do We Tell Stories?

During a recent visit to my parent’s house in Denver, I opened a chest that contained a whole bunch of my elementary school work, a lot of little league trophies, and some drawings of pigs wearing glasses. But best of all was the first short story I ever wrote. The story occupies the bottom half [...]

June 25, 2010 READ MORE →